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Ok. ive read a few places about useing easy off (yes the oven cleaner) to remove the paint on your bike, and heard a few people asking if it worked or if anyone had tried it. well i have. in fact yesterday i did. Thanx to black_peter who gave a peice of an old fairing of his to do my testing on. thanx peter. I thought i would post up my results to let everyone know how it went down.
I started out by coating the fairing with the easy off and i let it sit for 10 minutes. I was afraid to leave it too long. Came back and used the jet spray on my water hose to spray off any paint. Nothing came off. I was a little dissapointed.
So... I dried it off, and sprayed it down again. This time i let it sit for 30 minutes. I returned and sprayed it off with my water hose. low and behold! it was working. The Pretty light blue sprayed right off, revealing the primer underneath. All though ALL of the paint did not come off, i was able to get about half of it off like this. But it didnt go through the primer.
So... I dried... resprayed the easy off. Again i let it sit for 30 minutes. Came back and jet sprayed with hose. (u see a pattern, lol) anyway, more of the blue paint came off, but still hardly any of the primer sprayed off. A few small parts of it did, revealing a RED coat of paint underneath the primer. cool. Also some body filler that was on it loosened up i was able to peel a little of it away revealing the black plasting of the fairing just on that part. cool, but i was a little dissapointed on the fact that almost all the primer was still there.
So... I dried up... resprayed easy off. This time, i let it sit for an HOUR. I wanted to see if there was any more signifacat of an impact. After returning sprayed her down with the jet stream of the water hose. A little more primer came off, but not a whole lot. More red! this stuff just doesnt seem to work on the primer. It did seem to soften up the body filler though... just a little bit...
So... It was getting late, real late, and i was tired. Really I wanted to know if easy off would hurt the plastic at all. So for the ULTIMATE TESTING... (kindof). Since some of the black plastic was exposed, I sprayed down the peice with easy off one last time, making sure to coat the exposed plastic extra well. had just enough in the easy off can to do it. Allthough, i wasnt going to return to this to spray with water... nope. I went to bed! I thought i would let it sit over night. And then some! i got up around 8:30 and still, left to go get myself another job (that might be on a different thread). anyway, once i returned home at about 10:30, i sprayed it off. didnt really do much... Not any better than letting sit for 1 hour anyway. a few more spots sprayed off. But for the most part, most of the primer was still there! but in a few small areas i managed to get through to the black plastic. ugh. Good news though! the easy off oven cleaner did not hurt the plastic at all! not 1 bit. even after being on it for like, 10 hours. it was intact. i repeat
Easy off spray does not affect the Plastic. (atleast on the pre-98 )
all in all-- i used a whole can of easy off, and barely got through the primer after 15 hours... So.. if you only have 1 layer of paint, this might work for you... but like i said, barely got through the primer for me... i dunno maybe ill try again later.
by the way, just cuz i say the spray doesnt hurt the plastic, doesnt mean it wont on your bike, so make sure you test it out before u spray down all your parts with this stuff. i would hate to get blamed for your melted fairing, but im just saying it didnt hurt theplastic that i had.
ok. think ill try it a little more, then if it doesnt work after can number 2... im gonna have to find another method.
Hope this answers some questions.
I started out by coating the fairing with the easy off and i let it sit for 10 minutes. I was afraid to leave it too long. Came back and used the jet spray on my water hose to spray off any paint. Nothing came off. I was a little dissapointed.
So... I dried it off, and sprayed it down again. This time i let it sit for 30 minutes. I returned and sprayed it off with my water hose. low and behold! it was working. The Pretty light blue sprayed right off, revealing the primer underneath. All though ALL of the paint did not come off, i was able to get about half of it off like this. But it didnt go through the primer.
So... I dried... resprayed the easy off. Again i let it sit for 30 minutes. Came back and jet sprayed with hose. (u see a pattern, lol) anyway, more of the blue paint came off, but still hardly any of the primer sprayed off. A few small parts of it did, revealing a RED coat of paint underneath the primer. cool. Also some body filler that was on it loosened up i was able to peel a little of it away revealing the black plasting of the fairing just on that part. cool, but i was a little dissapointed on the fact that almost all the primer was still there.
So... I dried up... resprayed easy off. This time, i let it sit for an HOUR. I wanted to see if there was any more signifacat of an impact. After returning sprayed her down with the jet stream of the water hose. A little more primer came off, but not a whole lot. More red! this stuff just doesnt seem to work on the primer. It did seem to soften up the body filler though... just a little bit...
So... It was getting late, real late, and i was tired. Really I wanted to know if easy off would hurt the plastic at all. So for the ULTIMATE TESTING... (kindof). Since some of the black plastic was exposed, I sprayed down the peice with easy off one last time, making sure to coat the exposed plastic extra well. had just enough in the easy off can to do it. Allthough, i wasnt going to return to this to spray with water... nope. I went to bed! I thought i would let it sit over night. And then some! i got up around 8:30 and still, left to go get myself another job (that might be on a different thread). anyway, once i returned home at about 10:30, i sprayed it off. didnt really do much... Not any better than letting sit for 1 hour anyway. a few more spots sprayed off. But for the most part, most of the primer was still there! but in a few small areas i managed to get through to the black plastic. ugh. Good news though! the easy off oven cleaner did not hurt the plastic at all! not 1 bit. even after being on it for like, 10 hours. it was intact. i repeat
Easy off spray does not affect the Plastic. (atleast on the pre-98 )
all in all-- i used a whole can of easy off, and barely got through the primer after 15 hours... So.. if you only have 1 layer of paint, this might work for you... but like i said, barely got through the primer for me... i dunno maybe ill try again later.
by the way, just cuz i say the spray doesnt hurt the plastic, doesnt mean it wont on your bike, so make sure you test it out before u spray down all your parts with this stuff. i would hate to get blamed for your melted fairing, but im just saying it didnt hurt theplastic that i had.
ok. think ill try it a little more, then if it doesnt work after can number 2... im gonna have to find another method.
Hope this answers some questions.
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